Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Author’s Preface., sentence 43
With the translation of the pictographic script on the recently discovered seals, some clue or connection with later civilisations may possibly be traced.
Who acts: pictographic script · What happens: discover, trace, translate · To what, where: seals
This is a sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, Author’s Preface.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (pictographic script), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | With | with | ADP | _ | 3 translation | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 translation | det |
| 3 | translation | translation | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 script | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 script | det |
| 6 | pictographic | pictographic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 script | amod |
| 7 | script | script | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 translation | nmod |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 24 traced | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 traced | det |
| 10 | recently | recently | ADV | _ | 11 discovered | advmod |
| 11 | discovered | discover | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 traced | advcl |
| 12 | seals | seal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 traced | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 clue | punct |
| 14 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 15 clue | det |
| 15 | clue | clue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 seals | conj |
| 16 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 17 connection | cc |
| 17 | connection | connection | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 clue | conj |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 civilisations | case |
| 19 | later | late | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 20 civilisations | amod |
| 20 | civilisations | civilisation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 connection | nmod |
| 21 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 traced | aux |
| 22 | possibly | possibly | ADV | _ | 24 traced | advmod |
| 23 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 24 traced | aux:pass |
| 24 | traced | trace | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 script | acl:relcl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 translation | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | discover | past | recently property | vn discover-84-1 «NP V PP.topic S_ING»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | trace | may · passive | the pictographic script not said here | seals and some clue or connection with later civilisations | possibly property | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||
| 4 | translate | the pictographic script | nom translation «communication intransitive»: of=agent |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, Project Gutenberg book 76982 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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